Beautiflly done downtown!!Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
Southern steam crosses Main Street in Carbon Kentucky. More beer joints, poolhalls and jute joints than you can shake a stick at in this boom town! It's quite the contrast with Crooked Creek a poorer mining town south of here.
(Note: need to research steam locomotives, pick out a reasonable roster of engines for 1949 and reskin them with the C&L name. High up on any to do list will also be to have AI make an old timey railroad logo. A circle with the corporate C&L name that goes around the badge along with our 'The Rocky Road!' slogan. Then in the middle of the circle an outline of a bear. This recognizes one of the places on our route, the almost famous Kentucky settlement called Bear Tussle where some wild & woolly mountain man supposedly out wrestled a bear back in the earlies. Many will admit to you that's all hogwash, they hold it to be true that the bear won!)
Another view of Main Street with a more proper train photo, this time at the other end of the street looking south. Southern Railway also serves Carbon, they work a small interchange yard and have two stalls out of the seven total in our round house. Southern also has trackage rights to Limestone but according to contract no coal for them to haul if its comes from the Carbon area! Rumors fly around constantly that they are going to buy the Carbon & Limestone but that talk has gone on forever.
The joker that is our company photographer evidently climbed a tree to get this shot. Of course he had to pick out the dirtiest mess in town at the Kentucky Scrap Company to take a snapshot of. That's high achievement to out dirty the coal mines around here! Also to the right you can see company housing. Both railroads & the coal mines have some decent housing in their own sections, much better than poor old Crooked Creek which I understand you might have recently visited just to the south of here.
No doubt about it, two of Carbon Police Departments finest! The twins are fondly called Pete and Repeat by many of the locals in Carbon. They are securing the road construction worksite which has gone from Limestone on the Ohio River up to the Mountains and now literally are about to hookup to Main Street. This marvel of modern highway construction will be called Highway 99. The Construction & Engineering company leveled acres of trees and right behind them grading work and right now they are paving just a mile further south of here.
(I get sidetracked often! A fellow that posts a lot on the forums and is always helpful to me & everyone else got on me once when I was neglecting the RG&D Soldier Summit Route for a similar sideshow with news helicopters, toxic chemicals, an evil Corporate PR Lady, derailments and so forth. By the way I am convinced he works for NV3 Games but can't prove it and won't cough up a name. But this diversion might payoff. Thinking of a big timber harvest on a mountain or we could up the stakes and go all out. Time to push the throttle up to full military power and Strip mine a Mountain!)
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Thank you Mick, your kind words are greatly appreciated! My inspiration was this old photo of Hazard, Kentucky back in the 50s.
Love it! The amount of traffic and people on the sidewalks is amazing.Thank you Mick, your kind words are greatly appreciated! My inspiration was this old photo of Hazard, Kentucky back in the 50s.
Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
JCitron - Mission accomplished. Found a thumb drive and saved a CDP file. Thanks for the nice note about the Route!
Don't have a name for this mine yet so we will just call it Crooked Creek Mine #3 for now. Loaded 20 hoppers using a Pennsylvania Mikado but actually did ten at a time due to the sidings being short. Then pushed the train back to Carbon. So the caboose was leading the train. I mention that due to not being sure if that was correct procedure.
Got to have the obligatory birds eye view! This mine is a big operation in 1949. Later these mines got much larger but strip mining got started in a serious way in the late 1940s is what I gathered doing some internet reading for the route. Sorry about the junction arrows was operating & sight seeing at the same time!
JCitron - Mission accomplished. Found a thumb drive and saved a CDP file. Thanks for the nice note about the Route!
Don't have a name for this mine yet so we will just call it Crooked Creek Mine #3 for now. Loaded 20 hoppers using a Pennsylvania Mikado but actually did ten at a time due to the sidings being short. Then pushed the train back to Carbon. So the caboose was leading the train. I mention that due to not being sure if that was correct procedure.
Got to have the obligatory birds eye view! This mine is a big operation in 1949. Later these mines got much larger but strip mining got started in a serious way in the late 1940s is what I gathered doing some internet reading for the route. Sorry about the junction arrows was operating & sight seeing at the same time!
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Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
Good tidings this week at the C&L. Plus I restrained myself from posting a screenshot for three days!
It was touch and go but the brain trust at the C&L fumbled and bumbled our way to having a fully operational roundhouse earlier this week. (The quick and dirty lowdown is that you have to use surveyor classic to put together a round house & turntable, got that from Stokia01 on the forum!) The travails of the turntable however are not the biggest news flash of the week, kindly move down to the next photo and caption to get caught up...
After that teaser lets get to the good news. Pictured are our first two locomotives that are not borrowed or leased. If we can paint it, its ours.
I am embarrassed, but want to keep it real so I will admit that I spent well over eight hours yesterday trying to figure out 'reskinning!' I swear you need a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech to play on Trainz!
The Pacific #290 is going to work the passenger route to and from Limestone & Carbon, a modest affair that often only has two coach cars. It was bought from the Atlanta & West Point. She was built in 1926 by the Lima Locomotive works (A division of K&L trains). Next locomotive #24 is a Class M 4-8-0 Mastodon, built by Baldwin for the Norfolk & Western Railway in 1906. (Another K&L Trainz subsidiary no doubt). Can't decide if I like the full name on the tender or just the initials.
Our two locomotives in a standing on the mountain shot. Bet you were wondering what the heck a Pacific was doing at the local strip mine. She was taking two coaches of people up to Bear Tussle, KY for a bit of a festival that's been gaining momentum year by year. Concurrently our Mastodon was busy tending to filling up twenty 55 ton coal hoppers.
Will close out with a bit of horseplay. That same knuckle head that was using a crowbar on the turntable when the Boss Man came in to supervise was at it again! This time applying force with his crowbar on our brand new shinny machine that no one seems to know what to do with. Evidently 'MSGsapper Machine and Tool' sent us that & bunch more via pay on delivery (POD); instructions in the wood crate said it would make the shop look professional! One of our locomotive engineers however let some steam off and the crowbar clown was stopped in the act before he tore up the mystery contraption. Sometimes it is best just to let the crew police themselves. Give Mr. Ben a break!
Good tidings this week at the C&L. Plus I restrained myself from posting a screenshot for three days!
It was touch and go but the brain trust at the C&L fumbled and bumbled our way to having a fully operational roundhouse earlier this week. (The quick and dirty lowdown is that you have to use surveyor classic to put together a round house & turntable, got that from Stokia01 on the forum!) The travails of the turntable however are not the biggest news flash of the week, kindly move down to the next photo and caption to get caught up...
After that teaser lets get to the good news. Pictured are our first two locomotives that are not borrowed or leased. If we can paint it, its ours.
I am embarrassed, but want to keep it real so I will admit that I spent well over eight hours yesterday trying to figure out 'reskinning!' I swear you need a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech to play on Trainz!The Pacific #290 is going to work the passenger route to and from Limestone & Carbon, a modest affair that often only has two coach cars. It was bought from the Atlanta & West Point. She was built in 1926 by the Lima Locomotive works (A division of K&L trains). Next locomotive #24 is a Class M 4-8-0 Mastodon, built by Baldwin for the Norfolk & Western Railway in 1906. (Another K&L Trainz subsidiary no doubt). Can't decide if I like the full name on the tender or just the initials.
Our two locomotives in a standing on the mountain shot. Bet you were wondering what the heck a Pacific was doing at the local strip mine. She was taking two coaches of people up to Bear Tussle, KY for a bit of a festival that's been gaining momentum year by year. Concurrently our Mastodon was busy tending to filling up twenty 55 ton coal hoppers.
Will close out with a bit of horseplay. That same knuckle head that was using a crowbar on the turntable when the Boss Man came in to supervise was at it again! This time applying force with his crowbar on our brand new shinny machine that no one seems to know what to do with. Evidently 'MSGsapper Machine and Tool' sent us that & bunch more via pay on delivery (POD); instructions in the wood crate said it would make the shop look professional! One of our locomotive engineers however let some steam off and the crowbar clown was stopped in the act before he tore up the mystery contraption. Sometimes it is best just to let the crew police themselves. Give Mr. Ben a break!
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Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
We welcome our third town onto the C&L route.
Say hello to the almost famous town of Bear Tussle! With Crooked Creek and Carbon this gets us up to three good towns to haul a lot of freight and a modest amount of passenger traffic. That's Main Street by the way and no its not paved, it gets by on just gravel with some mud added in if it rains. The utility poles with multiple wires is a copy of a town not far from where grew up on a farm, more on that coming!
Research Update: This is the town of Grand Junction, TN in 1940 that I have attempted to use the same rustic vibe for the mythical town of Bear Tussle. Note the muddy streets and crazy power lines running right down the main drag. No street lights either. That white building on the left was a Western Auto store. My Dad bought me a Pete Rose first basemen's mitt there over 50 years ago. Still have it.
More procurement going on too! We got our first 55 ton coal hoppers in, they are used but in good condition. That wreck and ruin behind the hoppers is a mountain that was totally clear cut. Factor in the strip mine and the result was that we saved a lot of FPS due to much less trees than would have been used otherwise. I am still averaging just over 50 FPS. The only low setting I have is shadows.
(Give google AI a shout if your having frames per second troubles. It will tell you everything you need to do to run Trainz much smoother. Also, just type in Forest when looking for ground cover to paint with. There were two really good ones that even with a 25m working circle left no patterns.)
Will wrap it up with the obligatory birds' eye view! This pretty much is the whole town of Bear Tussle. I calculated after counting houses maybe 300 people live here, same as Grand Junction back on my old home turf. I am going lighter than I would wish for on the trees. I like a full canopy on those mountains, but its impossible with my rig. I will say these new trees which switch over to billboard mode at a distance are really working well for me. Every tree in this screenshot is a billboard at this distance. Watch one tree and make 360 around it. The tree keeps the same shape as you circle it at distance. But it works well, is not obvious and won't ruin immersion.
We welcome our third town onto the C&L route.
Say hello to the almost famous town of Bear Tussle! With Crooked Creek and Carbon this gets us up to three good towns to haul a lot of freight and a modest amount of passenger traffic. That's Main Street by the way and no its not paved, it gets by on just gravel with some mud added in if it rains. The utility poles with multiple wires is a copy of a town not far from where grew up on a farm, more on that coming!
More procurement going on too! We got our first 55 ton coal hoppers in, they are used but in good condition. That wreck and ruin behind the hoppers is a mountain that was totally clear cut. Factor in the strip mine and the result was that we saved a lot of FPS due to much less trees than would have been used otherwise. I am still averaging just over 50 FPS. The only low setting I have is shadows.
(Give google AI a shout if your having frames per second troubles. It will tell you everything you need to do to run Trainz much smoother. Also, just type in Forest when looking for ground cover to paint with. There were two really good ones that even with a 25m working circle left no patterns.)
Will wrap it up with the obligatory birds' eye view! This pretty much is the whole town of Bear Tussle. I calculated after counting houses maybe 300 people live here, same as Grand Junction back on my old home turf. I am going lighter than I would wish for on the trees. I like a full canopy on those mountains, but its impossible with my rig. I will say these new trees which switch over to billboard mode at a distance are really working well for me. Every tree in this screenshot is a billboard at this distance. Watch one tree and make 360 around it. The tree keeps the same shape as you circle it at distance. But it works well, is not obvious and won't ruin immersion.
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